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COMPOSERS OF GREAT BAND WORKS

Here are downloadable one-page outlines of each composer's life and a few interesting facts about them. These would be ideal for handing out to your band students so they can learn a bit about the creator of the music they are playing. Might a band director be so bold as to even have a test on this material? (What . . . a written test in band?) Let me know if you find these helpful!

The files are in PDF format, so make certain you have the Adobe Reader
installed on your computer, then click on the name of the composer.

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
(1854 - 1932)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
(1872 - 1958)

GUSTAV HOLST
(1874 - 1934)

AARON COPLAND
(1900 - 1990)

PERCY GRAINGER
(1882 - 1961)

ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
(1894 - 1981)

VINCENT PERSICHETTI
(1915 - 1987)

PAUL HINDEMITH
(1895 - 1963)

JOHN BARNES CHANCE
(1932 - 1972)

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
(1874 - 1951)

DARIUS MILHAUD
(1892 - 1974)

WILLIAM SCHUMAN
(1910 - 1992)

CHARLES IVES
(1874 - 1954)

KARL L. KING
(1891 - 1971)

These articles were written for, and published in, the Bandmasters Review
- a publication of the Texas Bandmasters Association.